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lord_n	john_n	king_n	sir_n	55,943	5	6.2501	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54689	The mistaken recompense, or, The great damage and very many mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably happen to the King and his people by the taking away of the King's præemption and pourveyance or compositions for them by Fabian Phillipps, Esquire.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1664 (1664)	Wing P2011; ESTC R36674	82,806	136

the pattern of private Housekeepers and the narrow and unbeseeming Customes of their smaller Estates and Families That the wast of honor and the more then ordinary Fragments left in the Kings House as the remainders of the Dyet provided for him and his servants for the food and sustenance of the Poor and such as will be glad of it are but the requisites and appurtenances to the Majesty and Honor of a King that Sir Richard Weston afterwards Earle of Portland and Lord High Treasurer of England Sir John Wo●stenholme Knight Sir William P●t● and others commissioned by King James to make a Reiglement and Espa●gne in his house-keeping being men of known and great experience in the management of their own Estates could not then find any such things as have been since laid to the charge of the Kings Officers and Servants in his House that the pretensions not long after of better husbandry in the Kings House by some niggardly contrivances and serving some of the Tables with half a Goose instead of a whole came to no more at the last then the obtaining of the pretenders self ends and an Annuity of 500l per annum for th● lives of the pretender his wife and the longer liver of them that the Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Housholds yearly Fee of 100 l. the Treasurer of the Housholds yearly Fee of 123l 14s and the Cofferers yearly Fee of 100l measured and proportioned to the antient and former cheapness and means of livelihood would have even then been very deficient for the support of such persons of Honor and Quality if they had not had at the same time some seldome falling expectations of other favours and rewards from a Princely Master and a present liberal allowance for their Tables which although it doth now stand the King by the enhance of his rates and prices in a great deal more then it did formerly yet unto those that received those allowances for their Tables and Dyet it is no more then formerly for if an estimate were taken how much it would cost the King to make and encrease the Salaries and wages of his Servants and Officers of all ranks and sorts which in all the several Offices and Places and Dependencies about the persons of the King and Queen are above one thousand all or most of whom did when the Tables and Diets were allowed intercommune one with another and were with many also of their Servants fed with the Kings Victuals and Houshold Provisions to be according unto the rates of wages Salaries and as much as they are now taken and given in private Families and all were to be paid in money and nothing in dyet the Kings Treasury Purse or Estate would soon be brought to understand that such increased Allowances or other Allowances Pensions Wages and Salaries which must according to the rise and enhance of all manner of things conducing to the support and livelihood of such Servants be now necessarily paid and given over and above the antient Fees and Salaries would arise and amount unto more then all the charge of the Pourveyance or Compositions for them whether it were thirty and five thousand pounds a year or fifty thousand pounds per annum which was laid and charged upon the Counties or more then the King is unjustly supposed to be deceived or cheated by his servants or those which do direct the affairs of his Houshold when it cannot escape every private mans Judgement and experience in house-keeping that he that doth give his servants forty shillings per annum Salary and as much more to be added unto it in certain Fees and Profits well known and calculated to amount unto no more then another forty shillings per annum doth give his servant but four pounds per annum in the totall and is not at all cozened therein and that it would otherwise be no Honour to the King but a diminution of Majesty and a temptation or necessity enforced upon his servants to deceive him if the Serjeant of the Ewrie and the Serjeant of the Bakehouse to mention but a few of many should have but their antient and bare Salaries of 11 l. 8 s. 1 d. per annum and want their antiently allowed Avails and Perquisites That such short and now far too little Wages and Salaries to be given to the Kings Servants in their several honourable and worshipfull Stations would be unworthy for them to receive and dishonorable for the King to give And that the no inconsiderable summe of money which was yearly and usually saved by the venditions of the over-plus of the Pourveyance or Compositions for them and imployed in the buying of Linnen and Utensils for the service of the House the now yearly allowances for Diet to eight principall great Officers and to seaven of the next principall Officers and what his Majesty payeth yearly to others for Board-wages and what is enhanced and laid upon him by unreasonable rates and prices now that his Officers are constrained to buy with ready money and to pay a barbarous Interest and Brocage to provide it compared with what he now spends in his private allowances for his own and the Queens Diet and some other few yet allowed Tables will make a most certain and lamentable demonstration that the King and his Honor were gainers by the Pourveyance os Compositions for them and very great loosers by the taking of them away And that he did meet with a very ill Bargain by the Exchange of his Pourveyance or Compositions for them for a supposed recompence of Fifty thousand pounds per annum intended him out of the Moiety of the Excise of Ale Beer Perry c. But if the abuses committed by the Servants and Officers of the King within the house were so great or any thing at all as is pretended for as to the Pourveyors and those that act without dores the Law hath sufficiently provided they may certainly be rectified and brought under a reformation without the abolishing or totall taking away of the right use of them or that which cannot be spared or by any means be abandoned but may be dealt with as we do by our Wines Victuals or Apparel which as necessaries of life are in their right use to be kept and reteyned notwithstanding any misusage of them Or if the Pourveyance or Compositions for them were so much diverted from the use intended by them yet that will not be any reason for the quitting of them without a due exchange or recompence for that if they were all of them as is meerly fained or fanci●d mispent or misimployed yet those that do mispend them and they that have the benefit of them not that I would be an Advocate to justifie the selling of the Kings meat or houshold provisions unto any in the Neighbourhood or any accursed cheatings of the King which I wish might be punished as Felony are neither Enemies or Strangers to the Nation but the Kings Subjects and

part in the residue he being now enforced to purchase the victuals and food for Himself and his houshold at a far greater rate then any of his Subjects 20000 l. 0 s. 0 d. Besides what may be added for the tricks pilferings of inferiour Servants of the houshold and their taking indirect courses and advantages to make up or recruit their Losses and the damage which the King may susteyn by having such his servants Metamorphosed and turned into hunger-starved Ratts which will be nibling and gnawing at every thing which they can come at and may be catched but are not to be destroyed by drowning or poisoning And the loss and diminution of the Honour of the King in his Royal Houshold which is and ought to be inestimable and as much beyond a valuation As the Honor of a Sovereign Prince is and ought to be above and beyond that of the vulgar or any private person Which may bring us to this conclusion That although Fifty thousand pounds per annum were in the granting of a Moyety of the Excise to the King his Heirs or Successors intended to be allowed for the Pourveyance or Compositions for them which did cost the Kingdome yearly and Communibus Annis but Twenty five thousand and twelve pounds or thereabout in the 35 year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and in the third year of the Reign of King James not much above Forty thousand pounds per annum and in the Reign of King Charles the Martyr at the most but fifty thousand pounds per annum 〈◊〉 whether more or less is not to be found in the Receipt or yearly Income of that Revenue of the moyty of the Excise For that the totall of the clear yearly profit of the moyety of the Excise allowed unto the King for the Exchange of his Tenures in Capite and by Knights service and the Pourveyance or Compositions for them doth not amount unto the charges of the Collection deducted above One hundred and twenty thousand pounds per annum Is likely to be lesse by reason of an universall poverty of those which should pay it making a large accompt of many desperate Arrears and of the Farmers in many places letting it three or four times over to others under them and so very much racking and oppressing of the people if but half of what is complained of be true as many private Families do to avoid the gripes of the Excise-men and the knavery of the Common Brewers set up Brewhouses for their own occasions And will be too little for the exchange or purchase only of such a principall flower and support of the Crown and an eminent part of the Royall Prerogative as the Tenures in Capite and Knight-service are which in yearly revenue yielded him above One hundred thousand pounds per annum And for that the Power Might and Majesty of a King being unvaluable is not to be ballanced by any thing which is not as much So as the damages and losses susteyned by the want of the Pourveyance or Compositions for them besides what shall be paid more then formerly for the charges of the Stable impressing of Workmen for the Kings occasions by the Master● of the Works the King now paying every Workman eighteen pence or two shillings per diem when it was before but twelve pence and the charges more then formerly in the Pourveyance for the Navy Ship-Timber Ammunition and carriage thereof c. and many other losses not here enumerated will be no less then the sum of One hundred seven thousand and fifteen pounds five shillings And a too certain Totall of that which is here valued and brought to accompt besides the unvaluable honour and power of the King loss and ruine of his Servants and what indirect courses may intice them unto Which needs not be doubted when as by an exact and carefull accompt given unto the Lords in Parliament in or about the third year of the Reign of King James by Sir Robert Banister Knight then one of the Officers of his Houshold of what was yearly saved to the King by the Compositions for the Pourveyance over and above the yearly value of what it cost the Countries when the rates were both in the Country and City of London not by a third part and in many things a half and more so much heightned as now they are and a project of purchasing the Pourveyance from the Crown for Fifty thousand pounds per annum was in agitation there appeared to have been yearly saved by the Compositions and Commissions for Pourveyance the sum of Thirty four thousand eight hundred forty six pounds ten shillings and six pence and in the Office for the Stable Two thousand six hundred ninety and eight pounds which made a Totall of Thirty seven thousand five hundred forty and four pounds ten shillings and six pence and probably might be the reason that that unhappily after accomplished designe did then vanish into nothing 1. Nor will the yearly damage losses of the people in the totall arrive unto a lesse when they shall finde the moyety of the Excise not amounting to One hundred and thirty thousand pounds per annum in the utmost extent and income of it without deductions or defalcations to the Officers imployed by his Majesty therein to be doubled and made as much again upon them by the fraud and oppression of the Brewers little malt put into their Beer and ill boyling of it and lesser measures sold by the Inkeepers and Alehouse-keepers And yet the Brewers being paid the Excise of Beer and Ale by the housekeepers and Retailers as much as they do pay to the King and a great deal more by reason of the Excise of three Barrels of Beer and two of Ale in every twenty allowed them will not think it enough to cozen and abuse the people whose good and evil and profit and loss is included in that of the Kings unless they do also by false Gaugings concealed Brewings and other ill Artifices use all the wayes and means which they can to make themselves great gainers by deceiving the King as well as the people and will like too many of their fellow Citizens the great Tax-Improvers and Advantage-catchers of the Kingdom be sure to be as little loosers by it as the Fox would if a monthly Assessement should be set upon him for his subterranean Boroughes and dark Labirinths or the griping Usurer the biting Broker and the knavish Informer would be if an yearly Imposition or Tax should be layd upon their ungodly and oppressive gains and Imployments 2. Neither will the peoples loss damage be lessened when there shall be a scarcity of Food Provisions at the Markets in regard that the Kings Officers and Pourveyors for his Houshold shall now be constrained to buy his Houshold provisions in great quantities at the Markets or Shops in London or in the Counties adjacent which were wont to be served in kind by the several Counties